Northwest History. Aviation 8. Wilkins' Expedition, United States.

ALASKAN FLIGHT SUCCESS
Wilkins' Plane Ready Soon To Go To Point Barrow.
By Frederic Lewis Earp. Special Correspondent of the Spokesman-Review and the North American Newspaper Alliance with the Detroit Arctic Expedition.
FAIRBANKS, Alaska, March 29. --The single-motored monoplane Alaskan of the Detroit arctic expedition made a successful trial flight here this afternoon lasting 1 hour 40 minutes. Ben Eielson, one of the pilots flew the ship, with Captain George Hubert Wilkins, the commander, in the cockpit. Eielson made a perfect landing.
The plane is to leave in a few days for Point Barrow with the first load of gasoline and other supplies for the expedition's flights of exploration over the unknown polar basin.

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ALASKAN FLIGHT SUCCESS
Wilkins' Plane Ready Soon To Go To Point Barrow.
By Frederic Lewis Earp. Special Correspondent of the Spokesman-Review and the North American Newspaper Alliance with the Detroit Arctic Expedition.
FAIRBANKS, Alaska, March 29. --The single-motored monoplane Alaskan of the Detroit arctic expedition made a successful trial flight here this afternoon lasting 1 hour 40 minutes. Ben Eielson, one of the pilots flew the ship, with Captain George Hubert Wilkins, the commander, in the cockpit. Eielson made a perfect landing.
The plane is to leave in a few days for Point Barrow with the first load of gasoline and other supplies for the expedition's flights of exploration over the unknown polar basin.